Out of 243 runners at the University of Southern Maine Invitational, only two women finished ahead of Bates College sophomore Hannah Zeltner. Among NESCAC competitors scattered throughout the northeast that day, Zeltner stood alone. She has been named the league’s performer of the week. Zeltner, of Bedford, N.H., led three Bates runners in the top […]
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The Hot Corner: Looking at the Bobcats under new light
Sports columnists are below average at saying that we’re sorry, that we were wrong, or that we have re-evaluated anything in our lives other than which malted beverage we’re consuming after a hard day of “work.” Wait, “below average?” Let’s not be excessively generous. We stink at it. Every time I accidentally set down the […]
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The Hot Corner: Patience with Patriots will be rewarded
For every action during the first month of the NFL season, there is an immediate, irrational overreaction. It hasn’t always been this way. That’s the price of a world in which Twitter, Facebook, fantasy football and Skip Bayless are allowed to exist. We used to recognize that five months are an eternity in this most […]
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The Hot Corner: The politics of dancing (how coaches tiptoe through blowouts)
Week 1 of high school football quickly showed me two things: A) Adding a fourth class didn’t dramatically reduce the number of blowouts. B) The politics of navigating those one-sided games, for both victorious and vanquished coaches, will never change. Coaches consistently proclaim that games of hammer-versus-nail “aren’t good for anybody,” and those gentlemen are […]
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The Hot Corner: Time to examine what our kids are consuming
There are so many visible and intangible forces sabotaging our kids’ lives that we just can’t seem to keep track of them all. We’ve done a credible job, for example, with anti-bullying programs and by teaching them to respect people of different faiths, skin tones or other orientations. Yet somehow we fell asleep at the […]
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The Hot Corner: Super win for the little guys
OXFORD — Travis Benjamin now has won the same TD Bank 250 that Kyle Busch dominated two years ago. Same event that Kevin Harvick commanded three Julys before that. The difference couldn’t be more dramatic if you took a panoramic photo of Charlotte Motor Speedway, then plopped it down next to a snapshot of Benjamin’s […]
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The Hot Corner: Forty looks super on this little, big race
Turning 40 gets a bad rap. I’ve been there, and now, as of Sunday evening, so has the TD Bank 250 at Oxford Plains Speedway. When approaching that milestone, we often read about the dreaded midlife crisis. Hey, I changed the left digit of my age together with the right one eight months ago, and […]
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The Hot Corner: Ten days of angst, bargaining and acceptance
They don’t make television and movie comedies like they used to. When you’re connected to Boston sports fans through every pipeline of new media, however, you don’t need a sign reminding you to giggle or guffaw. It’s like Caddyshack multiplied by Animal House filtered through Cheers, every fun-loving day. If you aren’t ROFL, LYAO, either […]